Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biography

• Born 21 October 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England
• Brother Luke died, inspired poem Monody
• Met Robert Southey, idealized Pantisocracy.
• 1795: Married Sara Fricker
• 1796: Had first child David.
• 1797: Famous poems including:
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan
• Christabel.
• 1798: Had second son Berkeley, died within year.
• 1798: Created Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth
• Began Romantic Movement
• Member of the Lake Poets
• Author of Biographia Literaria
• Published 1807
• Opinion on specific literature
• Also engages: 
• Immanuel Kant
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.
• 1818: Gave famous lecture on Hamlet
• Famous critic
• Suffered from bipolar disorder, resulting in addiction to drugs.
• Depression occurred, continued drug-use
• Family became alienated
• Stayed at house of James Gillman, physician, for 18 years.
• Major influence of American Transcendentalism.
• Died July 25, 1834 in Highgate, England due to heart failure